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I haven't been to a comic store in about 10 years or so. Around 05 I started downloading them off zcult and irc for awhile and then fell out of comics for awhile. Some time around when New52 started and Marvel NOW I started reading again. I went the legal route and collected everything through Comixology/Marvel digital comics shop. But lately I've been wanting to visit my local comic shop but I have been wondering that I wondered when I was a kid.
Is it ok to read the comics that are in those big stacks of comics that are sealed with tape? Can you just open one and read it? I know it was ok to read the new comics on the wall because everyone else was doing it. But I was always too scared to ask if I could just open up a comic in the bin and read it and decide if I want to buy it or not. Is that something they allow in general?
There was Comics For Sale on 75th and Columbus, and it was only two blocks from our school so we hit that one a lot once the bell rang. Sometimes the guy let us pay for books with subway tokens as both comics and the subway cost $1.00 at the time. And then, oddly, they both went to $1.25 at the same time.
Big Apple Comics was on 89th and Broadway and that was a last resort stop mostly because in the late 1980s/early 1990s that was kind of a sketchy section of Broadway, but also because it was one of those dingy, on the second floor, crap everywhere stores that I hated even as a kid. Good poster selection, though.
But my first shop, the place I look back on with the fondest memories was West Side Comics. Located on 86th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues, it was my first real comics home. My friend Patrick lived one block over on 87th Street so we ended up there together a lot. West Side Comics was my regular shop throughout junior high and part of high school until my family moved to Queens and I suddenly had a store right around the corner from our new place.
Great article, Conor. I remember my parents taking me to this one shop as a kid that was having a big closing sale. I was buying comics off the newstand at a local Kmart at the time, and had never been to a comic shop before. I remember the overwhelming excitement at being turned loose upon longbox after longbox of discounted books. Good times. That was the first and only time I went there, as it was replaced by a Papa Johns shortly thereafter. Guess that would explain my irrational contempt for their pizza.
My first shop was Comic Carnival in Broad Ripple, which is a hipster place outside of downtown Indianapolis. I would ride my bike there once a week to buy comics, and sometimes more than once to buy Fleer X-Men cards. It was a great place with new stuff and huge back issue selection.
My first comics were gotten from a dingy convenient store a block from my house. Three comics in a pack, sealed in plastic. The covers were ripped off of each comic, which I guess is why they sold for so cheap. Later I found a store that sold comics individually, and with the covers intact! I was in heaven.
@conor you have given me quite a flashback here. wow. i went to these shops. specifically Big Apple and West Side. i remember growing up in the Bronx and flipping through the yellow pages and finding such places as shops solely devoted to comics. i convinced my pops to take me, and he did. and when i was good my reward was for my pops or my big brother to take me to the comic shop. it was heaven. it was magical. wow, thank you conor for this article.
Does anyone know how common it was for a real Store Stamp to actually be stamped on a newly arrived batch of comics by either a newsstand or, later on, a comic book store? I know in the old days the newsstand was the primary place to get comic books, since comic book stores were not yet around and that bookstores were a common place to get back issues. I do not recall having seen any newsstand store stamps but used bookstore stamps are relatively common.
Unless it is a famous old bookstore where the collectors from the old days would congregrate and get tons of ECs and Nedors and Centaurs Timelys and the like. There is one bookstore like this I am thinking about but danged if I can remember the name.
Store stamps tend to be huge (Bonnets especially) - if they were as small as date stamps they wouldn't be any worse than a small name written on the book. With all markings it pretty much comes down to size and placement more than typwe for me. A back cover store stamp is far preferable to a big grease pencil arrival date written across someone's face.
I really believe that store stamps and date stamps (or arrival date wriiten in pen) should be considered as a defect. What's the difference between the original owner writing in pen his name on the cover and the shop owner writing in pen the arrival date on the cover ? For me, there is no difference, it is ink added to the comic and therefore a defect since it does alter the original condition of the book.
If date stamps are one day ever considered to increase the value or the attractiveness of a comic, I'll bet you anything that we would soon see a phenomenal and sudden increase in the number of date stamps on comics....
i like full date stamps over store stamps. Store stamps are OK with me if the city and state are part of it. Makes it cool to see "where" the book "traveled" to/through. But, in general, store stamps are too large and obtrusive on the covers for me.
Same should be with comics. A comic with a big store stamp is obviously less attractive than a comic with a faint and discreet arrival date. But both, like stamps, should worth less than a comic that has no "ink" added
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To confirm this, I turned to some experts: Jim Buser, Michelle Nolan, Bud Plant and Dick Swan. They were friends in the San Jose area in the late-1960s and would go on to be pioneers of comics retail. They were some of the people behind two early comic shops, Seven Sons Comic Shop in 1968, then Comic World in 1969.
I also reached out to a few other people who might have answers. This included Robert Beerbohm, who co-founded Comics & Comix in the Bay Area with Plant and John Barrett, and has written about comics retail history, and Bill Schelly, the Eisner Award-winning author of books about comics history.
The case for it: Victory Thrift felt like a comic shop in a way that would be familiar to a current reader, according to Jim Hanley, who shopped at the store as a kid and would go on to become a retailer himself.
Cherokee Book Shop, Hollywood, California, circa 1960. This Hollywood Boulevard store was a wonderland of books, comics and other printed material. Its comic book selection grew over the years, with that part of the store looking a lot like a comic shop. Early comics fans, especially those from California, have warm memories of this place, which helped to inspire other businesses that had more of a focus on comics.
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